Mausoleum



June 7, 1927.

J. w. ZENGERLE MAUSOLEUM Filed Aug. 25, 1925 Patented June 7, 1927.

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Application filed August 25, 1923 Serial No. 659,314;

This invention relates to ma-usoleums.

This invention has utility when incorporated in features of drainage, disinfecting and sealing.

, Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary view of a mausoleum showing an embodiment of the invention incorporated therewith; and

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 11-11, Fig. 1, the scale being enlarged, and parts being broken away.

The mausoleum is shown as comprising a corridor 1 having a floor 2. From the corrider 1, the floor 2 extends by floor or 5 bottom walls 3, 4, to back wall 5. The floors 3, 4, are separated by vertical partitions 6, 7, connected by horizontally extending bottom walls 8, 9, in extent parallel to the floors 3, l. Top wall or ceiling 10 completes crypts 11 having charging openings or entrances 12 from the corridor 1. Below the floors 2, 3, a, is air space 13.

Below the forward ends of the vertical partitions or walls 7, housing 14: provides a sump as a sand pit 15. From this sand pit 15 extends riser duct 16 to cross fitting 17 below the line of the floors 3, 4. Oppositely extending branches'18, from the fitting 17, extend to upwardly extending termini or L fittings 19 to come flush with the lowest points in the floors 3, 4, centrally of and just inside the crypts 11 from the entrances 12. Until the crypts 11 are in use, the fittings 19 may be closed by brass plugs 20. The risers, fittings and branches as embedded .in the masonry or concrete walls may be iron. From the cross fitting 17 extends risermain 21 in alignment with the riser 16. The branching is continued for each horizontal pair of crypts or vaults in the adjacent vertical series to the top pair, where the riser duct 21 may enter T-fitting 22, having a pair of the' oppositely extending lateral branches 18.

The entrances 12-t0 the crypts 11 may be closed by slabs 23. These slab closures '23, one unit for each entrance 12, have outer bevel portions 24, which may be filled up flush with cement as a sealing material 25, in anchoring such slab to isolate a crypt in which a body has been placed in cofiin 26.

This scaling in of a body in a crypt 11 by a slab 23 and cement 25, is preferably completed by a marble or granite name plate 27, anchored by plaster of Paris or other cement is desirable to have this drip drainage from the bottom of the chamber 29 discharge into or approximately into upwardly opendrain portion 19. Any odor carrying liquid seepage from the corpse is thus at once commingled with de-odorant as it leaves the sealed crypt.

From the upper portion of the chamber 29, and extending to open into the crypt is vent 32, which may determine the rate of seepage from the outlet 31, as well as allow fumes or vapors from the de-odorant to escape from the chamber 28 into the crypt in addition to such fumes as may come 0 the drippings from the outlet 31. Accordingly the entire vault may be laden with the fumes of the de-odorant.

From the outer side of the slab 23, the

chamber 29 has duct 33 which extends to an upward filling opening 34. WVhen the crypt 11 is charged with a corpse, and the slab 23 sealed in position by the seal 25, plug 35 may be removed from the filling opening 34. and a charge of liquid de-odorant poured into the chamber 29. The plug 35 may be replaced, and the name plate 27 set. If there be desire for any subsequent charging of the as, makin the crypt front flush with the til) chamber 29 with de-odorant such may be ries from the other, a sand sump below said crypt partition wall, a drain duet in said V partition wall extending directly downwarddifferent vertical crypts, and fittings at said branches as assembly units whereby said-duct is eflective as a common seepage discharge line from a plurality of superposed crypts as well as a plurality ofrelativelyhorizontally disposed crypts, said sections being readily adaptable to a desired number of crypts both as superposed or as in horizontal pairs.

2. A burial crypt sealing slab, and a deodorant unit buried in said slab comprising a chamber having an opening directly from the inner side of the slab to the crypt, and a filler opening from the opposite side of the slab, whereby the slab and deodorant unit 20 may be installed simultaneously.

In wltness whereof I aflix my signature.

, JOSEPH W. ZENGERLE. 

